Age/Grade: Elementary 3

3rd-5th Grade, 9-11 Years

Drawing Movement

This local New York City school used Keith Haring's art to inspire a lesson on expressing movement in drawing.

Haring All Over

A lesson that focuses on pattern and design through line and color. The teacher, a fellow Haring fan, used many of the images on our site to inspire her students. The finished products were photographed and made into a book.

Add a Page to Love

Using Keith Haring's book, LOVE, as a stepping stone, students are asked to create their own page to express love while challenging their use of color.

Graffiti Project

Graffiti Project

A combined dance/visual art week long project, accompanied with live music and ending with a sharing, for students on the autistic spectrum.

Decoding Haring’s Symbols

A lesson in yarn painting sent in by a teacher from New Jersey. Support tools such as the video, "Drawing the Line: a Portrait of Keith Haring" were used and discussed.

Pendants

A lesson that allows students to design a symbol and challenges them to transform their designs into sculpture & wearable art.

Big Hat People

Influenced by Keith Haring's book, BIG, this lesson explores clothing and the adjectives we use to describe and differentiate them.

Marbling a la Haring

Using the process of paper marbling, this teacher has found a way to help students deconstruct and compose their own abstract compositions.

Monkey Puzzle

This lesson was produced by a university student majoring in Primary Education. The children will learn about Keith Haring and his work and create inspired work in different materials.

Keith Haring and Aborignal Art

Keith Haring and Aborignal Art

Inspired by both Haring's line and the artwork of the indigenous people of Australia, Aborigines, the students from this school in Texas created distinctly patterned portraits using markers and paint.

Virtual Figure Sculptures

Virtual Figure Sculptures

A fun and informative introduction to the art of Keith Haring, and an opportunity for students to design and build their own paper figure sculptures and envision them anywhere they want!

3D Paper-Edge Figure Sculptures

3D Paper-Edge Figure Sculptures

A fun and informative introduction to the art of Keith Haring and an opportunity for students to design and build their own paper figure sculptures!